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Leadership on Fire

There's Room for You When Your Situation Isn't Typical

Do you have a situation that isn't typical from the "norm?" The Gospel is for you, and there's room for you in Christian community!

Scattering Sunshine

When You Can’t Ease Their Pain: Finding Christ in Trials

Watching my son endure pain deepend my understanding of Christ’s Atonement and helped me find faith, strength, and peace

Equality For Happiness

Does One of Us Have to Change Religions to Marry?

Two decades of listening to interfaith couples have shown one writer which questions go unasked, and why asking them early can matter.

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ACROSS FAITHS

Michele Howe Writes and Reviews

Limitations Do Not Define Me

Jesus made it clear that if we give way to the Enemy’s subtle message that our lives no longer matter (remember his goal is to steal, kill, and destroy), we are forgetting that Jesus came to give us life (and life to the full).

Terry Gaspard

10 Things I Owe My Kids After Divorce

It may seem odd that I feel compelled to write about what I owe my kids because they’ve endured my divorce. Yet as an adult child of divorced parents and a mom who has been divorced, it’s my belief that children of divorce are entitled to certain rights. That’s not to say that children...

Faithful Resilience

You Can Care Deeply and Still Be the Calm in the Boat

When family crises hit, guilt says to jump. Jesus slept through a storm, then withdrew to pray. What Scripture says about helping without being consumed.

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Faithful Resilience

You Can Care Deeply and Still Be the Calm in the Boat

Jochebed's Basket: Letting Go of a Grown Child

"My Bones Are Vexed": Praying for a Grown Child

Faith and Finding Your Current Season

Faith and End of Life Planning

Faith and Purpose in Retirement

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Relationship Matters!

A Word to Fallen Leaders and Pastors

Can a Fallen Pastor Ever Lead Again?

When Christians Won't Let You Outlive Your Past

Does Divorce Permanently Disqualify a Pastor?

How Do You Live Your Best Life?

Stop Living in the Land of What If

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Sunrise Parenting

Supporting Children Through Grief with Faith and Honesty

Parenting Through Anxiety in an Uncertain Year

Teaching Kids Compassion in a Divided Culture

From Eden to Today: 5 Biblical Moms and Their Lessons

Spiritual Lessons Learned From Butterfly Metamorphosis

Advocating for Healthcare’s Most Vulnerable A Christian Call

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Googly Eyed Gospel

Why Pray if God Already Knows Everything?

All the Rage: How Christians Should Respond to Division

What If One Act of Grace Could Change Your Life?

Why “New Year, New You” Is a Trap for Christians

The Best Gift You Can Give This Christmas

Walking in Unity: Krista Bontrager & Monique Duson Interview

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The Thriving Life

The Era of Deception: Will The Real Church Please Stand Up?

A Generation Searching for God in All the Wrong Places

Staying "RAW" In A Changing World

Spiritual Resilience In A Changing World

The Bible Was Never Banned: America Just Forgot Its History

Humans Were Never Meant to Run on Empty: God Knew It First

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Wholeheartedly

What Christians Often Get Wrong About Freedom

4 Seasons in Life When I'm Thankful I Married my Best Friend

Saying Goodbye to 2025 - What A Year it's Been!

Why the "Ball and Chain" Analogy Has Marriage All Wrong

The Data Is In: Moms Are Happier Than You Think

When the Mountain Feels Bigger than your Faith

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Terry Gaspard

10 Things I Owe My Kids After Divorce

How Screen Time Can Sabotage Your Relationship

3 Steps to Active Listening With Your Partner

8 Rules for Effective Family Meetings

Vulnerability and Intimacy Go Hand in Hand

5 Dating Rules for Divorced Dads

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The Gathering Place

A Pastor's Stage IV Prostate Cancer Journey of Faith

4 Types of Trouble "With a Capital T"

5 Reasons You Should Write

3 Must-Haves for Happy Holidays

5 Things To Do After the Election

Searching For Justice in the 2024 Presidential Election

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Equality For Happiness

Does One of Us Have to Change Religions to Marry?

10% or 38%? Counting Hindu - American Interfaith Marriages

20 Questions to Ask Before an Interfaith Marriage, Not After

A Valentine’s Day Message for Dating Couples

Can Kids Be Raised in Two Faiths? A Pluralist Answer

Will Usha Chilukuri Convert to the Faith of JD Vance?

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Ye Shall Prosper in the Land

Amazon's 14k Job Cuts and the Coming Beast System

Who Is Behind the Murder of Charlie Kirk and What Happened?

Should Latter-day Saints Eat Cheetos?

The Masculine and Feminine Attributes of Justice and Mercy

Ezra's Eagle Prediction About The 2024 Trump Harris Election

Everyone is Lying to You

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Meet With God Make Him Known

As Sure As the Moon

What These Books Make Me Ponder 500 Years After Tyndale

The Great Instead - A Poem for Good Friday

God Does Not Waste Daughters — So Why Do We?

God Does Not Call the Lost Son a “Prodigal” — So Why Do We?

God Does Not Dehumanize People — So Why Do We?

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Roland Warren

What my grandson taught me about shadows

Is a 15-Week Abortion Ban Actually Pro-Choice?

How fathers should handle regret

Uncertainty of when life begins and the abortion decision

Mary's pregnancy and how it relates to the abortion decision

When did Jesus’s human life begin and how should this fact affect a Christian’s view of abortion?

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Buddhist

What Do Religions Say About Abortion and Reproductive Rights?

Dreaming Mother's Day

Why People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religion

Internal Family Systems Can Heal you Mentally & Emotionally

The Bible No One Spoke About: A Family’s Silent Faith

More Americans Are Praying Than You Think

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Catholic

The Holy Spirit Never Stops Speaking to Us

Halloween Means The Devil Doesn't Win in the End

A Family, Real, and Not Pretend

Thanking God Ahead of Time

Amoris Laetitia Deserves a Better Defence

5 Design Elements Found in Spiritually Rooted Homes

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Contemplative

Let's Talk About The Cornell 7-A Biblical Approach

Vernell Ingle | I've Just Called to Encourage You

The Apocalyptic Event In Nepal Is A Call To Pray Earnestly

The Lindsay Clancy Trial Has Become Legion—And That's Not Ok

I Think I’m Forgiving Her…

5 Portraits of God as Father in the Old Testament

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Evangelical

Limitations Do Not Define Me

Postured: Growing in the Character of Christ

The Lifelong Ministry Of Reconciliation And Redemption

Michele's Reviews - Get to Work by Jonny Ardavanis

Is Politics Shaping Your Faith More Than Jesus Is?

Skeletons, Raccoons, and Tall Tales for the Spooky Season

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General Christian

There's Room for You When Your Situation Isn't Typical

You Can Care Deeply and Still Be the Calm in the Boat

The Surprising Reason Your Spouse Pulls Away During Conflict

Jochebed's Basket: Letting Go of a Grown Child

The Era of Deception: Will The Real Church Please Stand Up?

When a Bad Dating Experience Makes You Want to Give Up

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Hindu

Does One of Us Have to Change Religions to Marry?

10% or 38%? Counting Hindu - American Interfaith Marriages

20 Questions to Ask Before an Interfaith Marriage, Not After

The Most Unexpected Gita Teacher in My Life

A Valentine’s Day Message for Dating Couples

Can Kids Be Raised in Two Faiths? A Pluralist Answer

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Jewish

Building a Little Ark in a Frightening World

Back to School, Back to Reality—and a New Set of Fears

Why I Converted to Judaism from Christianity

Purim's Ancient Story Echoes in Today's Israel-Iran Tensions

A Jewish Mother Responds to Chris Martin’s Remarks

99% of Interfaith Marriage Bans Found in Muslim Nations

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Latter-day Saint

When You Can’t Ease Their Pain: Finding Christ in Trials

Creating a Beautiful Mosaic | Michelle Hodge

Generational Miracles: True Stories of God’s Protection

Hidden truths revealed- miraculous stories of healing

God Understands Autism: A Parent’s Comforting Mantra

Waiting on the Lord | Desirée Johnson

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More Voices

Who Gets Close? Faith and Relationship Wisdom

Liturgia De Boda Ecológica - nupcial centrada en la creación

Does Location Tracking Make Your Children Safer?

Why Truth Is Not Bullying (Even When the Crowd Says So)

Domestic Violence in New York: A Call for Greater Awareness

Mama’s Life Lessons Still Guide Generations

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Muslim

Should Marriage Between First Cousins Be Legal?

Myth: I Converted by My Choice for Interfaith Marriage

Zohran Mamdani: NYC Mayor Elect with Interfaith Roots

Hindu-phobia and Muslim-phobia in Intermarriage

Hindu-Muslim Marriages: When Gandhi and Mohammed Meet

Desperately Seeking "Righteous Among Nations" in Gaza

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New Visions

I Used to be Small Release

I Used to be Small

Laura Forehand / Sherri Bothwell Death of the Pastor's Wife

The Many Forms of Prayer: What Does it Mean to Attune?

I Finally Cried

Putting God on Trial

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Pagan

Dark Goddesses and Martyred Mothers

What Happens to Pagans When We Die?

To The Survivors Of James Dobson: You Win

Chaobunga: A Discordian Deuteronomy

Ancestral Magic: Unleashing the Power of Your Soul’s Legacy

The Far Side of the River

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Progressive Christian

The Dating Recession: Why 70% of Singles Aren't Dating

Jesus Didn’t Come to Fix the World

Faith and Finding Your Current Season

Chapter 8, Elena: Angry Again

The Pharmakon of Autism

Spiritual but Not Religious? Why You Can't Know God Alone

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